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How to Stop Eating Too much
Do you always go for heavy meals and cannot resist feasting with both your eyes and mouth? How can you stop yourself from overindulging?
Every meal is an opportunity to learn more about your body and your emotions. Here are some guidelines which you can follow:
1. Say Yes to Salads. Eating a salad before lunch or dinner is a sure-fire way to keep from overeating. It will help curb your appetite and give you a sense of satiety sooner. To reap full portion control benefits from rabbit food, load up your salad with veggies or even lean meat like turkey cubes. The fibre in the veggies will help you feel fuller and lean meat's protein will give you an instant energy boost.
2. Meet Yourself Halfway. A really useful way to start managing your portions is to cut normal servings of your usual fare in half. If you are used to eating a whole deli or sub sandwich at lunch, just eat half and supplement your meal with raw veggies on the side and finish off with some fresh fruit. Share your lunch with a fellow colleague or pack up half of your meal for later before you even start eating.
3. It is okay to leave food on your plate. Your parents may have made you clean up that plate of dinner she cooked and laboured so hard for. But guess what? Mom does not cook your dinner anymore.
4. Start looking at food as sustenance, something that gives you energy and allows you to work through the day. Quit viewing it as a recreational activity or a way to bond with friends. Food is supposed to sustain you to do meaningful work, not be meaningful in itself.
5. Chew slowly and pace yourself. Chewing slowly digests your food better and pacing yourself gives you more time to evaluate whether you are really still hungry or you are stuffing food in your face for another reason.
6. Put your fork down between mouthfuls. Do not begin to prepare for the next mouthful until you have completely swallowed the first one. Take a breath in between mouthfuls before you begin to prepare the next one. It feels extremely tedious, but if you do it just once, you will get a good sense of exactly how you have been eating and the kind of experience you can have if you really pay attention.
7. Stand up. It is nearly impossible to determine how full you are while you are sitting. The mind seems to equate “being comfortable” with “still being hungry” when you are downing that steak, and the only viable way to ask yourself if you are full is to get up and reset the environment.
8. Stop justifying your behaviour. Your body does not need so much food. It needs enough to be productive throughout the day but how many of you reading this actually climb buildings or lift heavy equipment for a living? You only need as much energy as you will expend, so consume only what you need. It is not only healthy for you but it is less taxing on the environment you live in.
